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Name variable after other variable

Jun 9th, 2008

Is there any way to name a variable after another variable, I sort of made up this bit of code which I thought might work but it didn't

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<php
$V_Name = 'variable';
$"$V_Name" = 'Hello';
print($variable);
?>
<php
$V_Name = 'variable';
$"$V_Name" = 'Hello';
print($variable);
?>

Bit of a long shot I know but I thought it might work,
Any other ideas, I wondered if there was a command like setvariable(); where you could set the variable name as a string but I couldnt find anything.
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Sam Rudge

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Re: Name variable after other variable

Jun 9th, 2008

You can use something called a variable variable(yeah, I know it's weird)

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Re: Name variable after other variable

Jun 11th, 2008

Thanks, That worked fine

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